The Ultimate Helicopter's Design Allows It to Conquer Any Airspace | Blueprint

Agile and athletic, the helicopter is the only machine designed to take off vertically and hover. It is the only vehicle to have saved more lives than it has killed. With wind tunnel and chicken gun tests, this programme shows the helicopter being pushed to its limit.

We feature Westland’s Chief Test Pilot and scientific pioneers who have made the helicopter slicker and faster.

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Building the Ultimate is a fast-paced and fascinating series, combining CGI, archive and actuality footage to show how modern technology has shaped the objects we use, fight with, live and travel in. Find out how and why our 21st century weapons, buildings, superstructures and vehicles have evolved in the face of often impossible odds, looking in detail at their different components to demonstrate human ingenuity and our endless quest to build the indestructible.

This film was first broadcast: 2003

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